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Chekhov likened his characters to a child who is just starting to understanding a new concept and meaning of love, leading him to further evaluate himself not just as a lover to Anna, but as a man and individual as he appears to Anna and other people:
He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know…and another life running its course in secret… everything that was essential, of interest and value to him…was hidden from other people; and all that was false in him…all that was open.
While Gurov admitted and acknowledged the hypocritical life he led by carrying on a love affair with Anna while still living with his wife, Anna remained confused and uncertain about herself and her lover in Oates' redevelopment of Chekhov's original short story. Created to complete the missing information on events surrounding Anna and her lover's affair in Chekhov's story, Oates' the Lady with the Pet Dog primarily centers on Anna's feelings and thoughts throughout the affair. In Anna, Oates developed a contemporary spin to Chekhov's story, albeit the plot and essential events in the original story remained and were highlighted by looking at Anna's life and point-of-view of the events that occurred between her and her lover. Noticeable was Oates' use of 'friend' as reference to Anna's lover instead of directly naming him, which further reinforced the fact that the story...
Just like Chekhov's Gurov, Anna finally acknowledged that she actually loves her lover, even though she has denied him many times in her mind. This acceptance was mirrored in this flood of realization from Anna: "…she did not hate him, she did not hate herself any longer… it was obvious to her that she had, all along, been behaving correctly" (371).
These endings and realizations make up a complete love story between Anna and Gurov (in Oates case, Anna's friend/lover): Gurov's acceptance of the 'wrongness' of his love affair and Anna's realization that her affair was actually a correct behavior for her meant that their love affair has transcended morality towards pure love between the two. The fact that both Anna and Gurov felt right about their feelings for each other prove the 'rightness' of their love affair, defined from their own understanding and experience of love, loving and lovers.
References:
Chekhov, a. The Lady with the Pet Dog. Available at: http://www.turksheadreview.com/library/texts/chekhov-ladypetdog.html.
Oates, J.C. (2006). The Lady with the Pet Dog. In High Lonesome. NY: HarperCollins.
Lady With the Pet Dog According to Vladimir Nabokov, "The Lady with the Pet Dog" is referred to be one of the greatest stories ever written. The story was published in 1899, revealing a symbolic suitability according to the era. Chekhov, who was to die within five years, is revealed in the story as reinventing the form for the 20th century. In the context of this short tale, Gurov experiences an
Lady with the Dog" by Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov's short story, entitled, "The Lady with the Dog," is a love story between the two main characters, Dmitri Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna, and the struggle that they experienced as they try to prevent their affair from happening, especially since they are already married and have their own respective families to live with. In addition to their love story, the primary focus
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In other words, his transformation was not based on any kind of moral or ethical epiphany regarding the sinfulness of deceit and adultery, but rather on the simple fact that he happened to fall in love with one woman. Gurov had always pursued his desires with a vengeance; it was just that up until this point in time, he had never really experienced true love. He ultimately did not
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